Editor’s note: For Felix, there was once a time when anything over 40mm was too big, and like wine, he would say watches only got better with age. But the times they are a-changin’, and we’re not all the same people we once were. He makes some very good points in this little piece of opinionated writing that he first dropped on us back in 2016. While it’s not quite vintage, we thought it was worth a reissue … When I first started getting seriously into watches, I was all about vintage. In my mind this is where it was at. I lusted after the IWC Mark XI, the Omega Memomatic and the Tudor Advisor. I’d wince when a brand ‘updated’ its icon, which invariably meant making it bigger, wider and, to my eyes, uglier. With the rosy-tint of nostalgia for a life that was gone before I was born, I was sure perfection in watch design was reached in the pre-CAD times of the mid-’70s (it goes without saying that I thought the ’80s was a horological dead-zone full of quartz, Swatch and two-tone). Fast forward to today – I’ve learned a little more about watches, and have come to a…
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